Each semester, the Department of Mechanical Engineering holds research seminars which are open to all faculty and students. The department invites speakers from the department as well as outside on research topics of interest to the faculty and students. These seminars are held on Thursdays, 11:00 - 12:00 pm, in room SL 165, unless otherwise stated.

In the following, you will find the schedule for this semester's seminars along with the speaker and abstract information. (Click on the Title for the abstract.) Please check this page regularly for updated information. For more information, contact Dr. Alan Jones at alsjones@iupui.edu. Schedules of previous semesters may be accessed from the News and Events main page.

• January 10, Thursday, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm, Room SL 165
  Speaker: Dr. Jian Xie, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN.
  Title: Advanced Battery and Fuel Cell Development for EV/HEV: From Materials to System

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• January 17, Thursday, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm, Room SL 165
  Speaker: Dr.Feng Pan, Visiting Research Scholar, IUPUI
  Title: Analysis and Applications of Particle Swarm Optimizer

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• January 24, Thursday, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm, Room SL 165
  Speaker: Ms. May Jafari, University Library, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN.
  Title: Research Literature Search Workshop

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• January 28, Monday, 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm, Room ET 137
  Speaker: Emily Tung, Graduate Student, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue School of Engineering and Technology, IUPUI, Indianapolis, IN
  Title: A Numerical Study of Bone Mass Transport in Bone Interstitial Fluid Flow

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• January 31, Thursday, 10:00 am - 11:00 am, Room SL 165; Ph.D. Prelim Seminar
  Speaker: Jingxin Liu, Ph.D. Student, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IUPUI/Purdue, Indianapolis, IN
  Title: Unsteady CFD Simulations of Moving Flow-Control Valves by an Unstructured Overset Grid Method

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• February 7, Thursday, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm, Room SL 165
  Speaker: Patrick Pierz, Director, Advanced Systems Design, Cummins, Inc., Columbus, IN
  Title: What Drives Engine Efficiency

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• February 14, Thursday, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm, Room SL 165
  Speaker: Dr. Jaehwan “John” Lee, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, IUPUI, Indianapolis, IN
  Title: Toward O(1) Run-time Complexity Deadlock Detection

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• February 18, Monday, 9:30 am - 11:00 am, Room SL 165
  Speaker: Rapeepan Promyoo, Graduate Student, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue School of Engineering and Technology, IUPUI, Indianapolis, IN
  Title: Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Nanometric Cutting Using LAMMPS

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• February 21, Thursday, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm, Room SL 165
  Speaker: ME Internship and Co-op Presentations
  Title: Presentations of Interns and Co-ops

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• February 28, Thursday, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm, Room SL 165
  Speaker: Dr. Rajeev R. Raje, Associate Professor and Associate Chair, Department of Computer and Information Science, IUPUI
  Title: Experiments with Multi-level Contracts and Matching in Distributed Systems-The UniFrame Way

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• March 6, Thursday, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm, Room SL 165
  Speaker: Dr. Raj Rajiyah, Executive Director, Components & Technology, Cummins Emissions Solutions, Columbus, IN
  Title: Diesel Engine Aftertreatment Systems

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• March 18, Tuesday, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm, Room UL 1116
  Speaker: Dr. Jerzy Chlistunoff, Technical Staff Member, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM
  Title: Oxygen Reduction at Transition Metal/Heteratomic Polymer Catalysts

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• March 20, Thursday, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm, Room SL 165
  Speaker: Dr. Bradley Layton, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA
  Title: Mechanics of Protein Evolution: Collagen and Tubulin

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• April 7, Monday, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm, Room ET 137
  Speaker: Shuning Li, Master's Degree Candidate, Dental Biomechanics Research Lab, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IUPUI, Indianapolis, IN
  Title: Quantification of Orthodontic Tooth Displacement

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• April 17, Thursday, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm, Room SL 165
  Speaker: Dr. Gregory Shaver, Assistant Professor, School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
  Title: Fuel-flexible Combustion of Biofuels for Next Generation Diesel Engines

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• April 25, Friday, 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm, Room ET 137; Ph.D. Prelim Seminar
  Speaker: Hongwei Li, Ph.D. Student, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IUPUI/Purdue, Indianapolis, IN
  Title: Transient Heat Transfer in Wave-Rotor Channels

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• May 15, Thursday, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm, Room SL 165
  Speaker: Dr. Peter Gerth, Manager, Center of Excellence in Engineering Sciences/Renewable Materials, University of Applied Sciences, Magdeburg-Stendal, Germany, IN
  Title: Renewable Materials in Mechanical Engineering – Wish or Reality?

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